FG Offers ASUU N30bn, Asks Lecturers To Make Sacrifices And Resume Work

An end may be in sight for the strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, as the FG is said to be offering N30 billion as earned allowances to the striking university lecturers.

According to the report, due to the reserve revenue base of the government, it was ready to offer N30 billion for lecturers to end the strike.

All the demands of the striking lecturers had been resolved except one, the issue of ‘earned allowances’,which they have put at N87 billion.

The N30 billion, which the federal government was offering, according to the source, was in the conviction that considering the nation’s current revenue base, ASUU would make some sacrifices and go back to work in the interest of the students and the country at large.

The source added that the government was desirous of a holistic and sustainable solution to the problems bedeviling the entire education sectors and infrastural development.